Forest Hills, MI
How exposed is Forest Hills to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Forest Hills at the 20th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 12,067 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Forest Hills at the 21st national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Forest Hills's buildings actually sit
Of Forest Hills's 12,067 counted buildings, 62.7% carry Direct exposure and only 13.5% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first. At 12,067 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Forest Hills compares
Within Michigan, Forest Hills ranks higher (66th percentile) than it does nationally (20th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Forest Hills ranks 25,278 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,293 by building count (1 is largest). Within Michigan alone, it ranks 251 of 745 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Michigan on its state page.
Forest Hills and the insurance market
Forest Hills's low rating (20th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 62.7% of Forest Hills in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Forest Hills's 25,278-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Forest Hills, see the exposure-zones guide.